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War Of The Worlds 1938 Radio Broadcast with Orson Welles

by: Mercury Theatre - Orson Welles - CBS

Publication date: 1938-10-30
Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0
Topics: H.G. Wells, Orson Welles, 1930s, Old Time Radio, Halloween, Mercury Theatre
Language: English
Item Size: 2.6G

In commemoration of the 75th anniversary of this radio broadcast and Halloween, I present this vinyl rip I've made of the War of the Worlds, as done in 1938 by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre.

I have included two versions here at multiple bitrates and filetypes.

On one, the only editing I've done is to attach the two sides of the record.

On the cleaned version, I did a minor amount of EQ and ran it through some mild cleaning processes anyone can do to remove some pops and things. I am by no means an expert, if someone takes the unedited version and cleans it better than I did, please let us know!

Here is a version here on the archive that was here before mine if you prefer

ALSO: Here is a very cool VR spatialized version from Archive.org user magicass98 that uses this version as a source. I highly recommend you check it out, and use those headphones! Check it out on YouTube. Thanks to magicass98 for making it and letting us know about it.

From it's Wikipedia page:

The War of the Worlds is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938, and aired over theColumbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898).

Addeddate: 2013-10-30 16:06:21
Identifier: WarOfTheWorlds1938RadioBroadcast256kbps
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Source: 58:02
Year: 1938